Stamford fight victim in critical condition

Published 7:53 pm, Monday, October 6, 2014

A Stamford man is in critical condition after falling down a flight of stairs during a fight at a West Side bar Saturday night, police said.

The 37-year-old man was inside Hugo's Tacos at 161 Stillwater Ave. about 9 p.m. when he and a friend got into a fight with two other men, Lt. Diedrich Hohn said.

Bouncers were putting a stop to the fight when the 37-year-old man, who was extremely drunk at the time, lunged at the bouncers and he was pushed against a wall near the staircase, Hohn said.

The man bounced off the wall, stumbled to the staircase and tried to grab the stair railing to stop the fall, but either missed the handrail or lost his grip. The man fell down seven stairs before landing on his head, Hohn said.

The man was in grave condition Saturday, but doctors at Stamford Hospital were able to stabilize him with an operation and put the man into an induced coma in hopes of reducing the swelling of the man's brain.

Hohn said the other participants in the fight, as well as the bouncers, were cooperative with police and did not appear to be at fault in the accident.

Hohn said a friend of the man who fell down the stairs, Encarnacio Perez, 43, of 102 Spruce St., Stamford, was charged with disorderly conduct.

When police booked him for the offense, they found he was wanted for not showing up to court on three traffic related court cases.

At Perez's arraignment, Judge Erika Tindill ordered that he be held in lieu of $25,000 bond on his failure to appear files.